60 Bible verses about Forgiveness

When I truly repent and humble myself before God, I know He is faithful and just to forgive me and cleanse me from all unrighteousness. It's through Jesus' sacrifice on the cross that I can receive this forgiveness. It's such a gift.

And you know, it makes me think about how God wants me to extend that same grace to others. He wants me to reflect His love to everyone around me, to be a reflection of Jesus in every moment. It's a challenge sometimes, but it's so important.

Forgiving others, I've found, is really about freeing myself. It's about healing those deep wounds and finding freedom from bitterness. It's not easy, but it's so worth it.

I want to practice gratitude and turn away from sin, coming to God with a repentant heart, knowing He will always forgive me. And hopefully, I can pay that forward and offer forgiveness just as freely as I've received it.

For if ye forgive men their offences, your heavenly Father also will forgive you yours,but if ye do not forgive men their offences, neither will your Father forgive your offences.

and be to one another kind, compassionate, forgiving one another, so as God also in Christ has forgiven you.

For if ye forgive men their offences, your heavenly Father also will forgive you yours,

in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of offences, according to the riches of his grace;

and my people, who are called by my name, humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from the heavens, and forgive their sin, and heal their land.

And judge not, and ye shall not be judged; condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned. Remit, and it shall be remitted to you.

Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered!

Who forgiveth all thine iniquities, who healeth all thy diseases;

and forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors,

And when ye stand praying, forgive if ye have anything against any one, that your Father also who is in the heavens may forgive you your offences.

forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any should have a complaint against any; even as the Christ has forgiven you, so also doye.

Be it known unto you, therefore, brethren, that through this man remission of sins is preached to you,

For this reason I say unto you, Every sin and injurious speaking shall be forgiven to men, but speaking injuriously of the Spirit shall not be forgiven to men.

and whoever shall say a word against the Son of man it shall be forgiven him; but to him that speaks injuriously against the Holy Spirit it shall not be forgiven.

and he is the propitiation for our sins; but not for ours alone, but also for the whole world.

who has delivered us from the authority of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love:in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins;

Because I will be merciful to their unrighteousnesses, and their sins and their lawlessnesses I will never remember any more.

For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive, and art of great loving-kindness unto all that call upon thee.

and the prayer of faith shall heal the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he be one who has committed sins, it shall be forgiven him.

God therefore, having overlooked the times of ignorance, now enjoins men that they shall all everywhere repent,

Repent therefore and be converted, for the blotting out of your sins, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,

For thy name's sake, O Jehovah, thou wilt indeed pardon mine iniquity; for it is great.

Then Peter came to him and said, Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me and I forgive him? until seven times?Jesus says to him, I say not to thee until seven times, but until seventy times seven.

As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.

Come now, let us reason together, saith Jehovah: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Blessed they whose lawlessnesses have been forgiven, and whose sins have been covered:blessed the man to whom the Lord shall not at all reckon sin.

but God commends his love to us, in that, we being still sinners, Christ has died for us.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Blessed the merciful, for they shall find mercy.

But to whom ye forgive anything, I also; for I also, what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, it is for your sakes in the person of Christ;that we might not have Satan get an advantage against us, for we are not ignorant of his thoughts.

not avenging yourselves, beloved, but give place to wrath; for it is written, Vengeance belongs to me, I will recompense, saith the Lord.And be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.If therefore thine enemy should hunger, feed him; if he should thirst, give him drink; for, so doing, thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head.

Be gracious unto me, O God according to thy loving-kindness; according to the abundance of thy tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.Create in me a clean heart, O God and renew a steadfast spirit within me.Cast me not away from thy presence, and take not the spirit of thy holiness from me.Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation, and let a willing spirit sustain me.I will teach transgressors thy ways, and sinners shall return unto thee.Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O God thou God of my salvation: my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.Lord, open my lips, and my mouth shall declare thy praise.For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou hast no pleasure in burnt-offering.The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God thou wilt not despise.Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion; build the walls of Jerusalem.Then shalt thou have sacrifices of righteousness, burnt-offering, and whole burnt-offering; then shall they offer up bullocks upon thine altar.Wash me fully from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

Take heed to yourselves: if thy brother should sin, rebuke him; and if he should repent, forgive him.after this manner shall it be in the day that the Son of man is revealed.In that day, he who shall be on the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not go down to take it away; and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.Remember the wife of Lot.Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it, and whosoever shall lose it shall preserve it.I say to you, In that night there shall be two men upon one bed; one shall be seized and the other shall be let go.Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be seized and the other shall be let go.Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be seized and the other let go.And answering they say to him, Where, Lord? And he said to them, Where the body is, there the eagles will be gathered together.And if he should sin against thee seven times in the day, and seven times should return to thee, saying, I repent, thou shalt forgive him.

Brethren, if even a man be taken in some fault, ye who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, considering thyself lest thou also be tempted.

But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared.

He that covereth transgression seeketh love; but he that bringeth a matter up again separateth very friends.

For this is my blood, that of the new covenant, that shed for many for remission of sins.

not avenging yourselves, beloved, but give place to wrath; for it is written, Vengeance belongs to me, I will recompense, saith the Lord.

not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing; but on the contrary, blessing others, because ye have been called to this, that ye should inherit blessing.

If thou, Jah, shouldest mark iniquities, Lord, who shall stand?But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared.

— I, I am He that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and I will not remember thy sins.

I will rise up and go to my father, and I will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee;I am no longer worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.and the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, This man receives sinners and eats with them.And he rose up and went to his own father. But while he was yet a long way off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell upon his neck, and covered him with kisses.

And Jesus said, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. And, parting out his garments, they cast lots.

He that covereth his transgressions shall not prosper; but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall obtain mercy.

and their sins and their lawlessnesses I will never remember any more.

And he rose up and went to his own father. But while he was yet a long way off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell upon his neck, and covered him with kisses.And the son said to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee; I am no longer worthy to be called thy son.But the father said to his bondmen, Bring out the best robe and clothe him in it, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet;and bring the fatted calf and kill it, and let us eat and make merry:for this my son was dead and has come to life, was lost and has been found. And they began to make merry.

not avenging yourselves, beloved, but give place to wrath; for it is written, Vengeance belongs to me, I will recompense, saith the Lord.And be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.If therefore thine enemy should hunger, feed him; if he should thirst, give him drink; for, so doing, thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head.Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered!Many sorrows hath the wicked; but he that confideth in Jehovah, loving-kindness shall encompass him.Rejoice in Jehovah, and be glad, ye righteous; and shout for joy, all ye upright in heart.Blessed is the man unto whom Jehovah reckoneth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile!

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return unto Jehovah, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God for he will abundantly pardon.

Be ye therefore merciful, even as your Father also is merciful.

whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted to them; whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.

The discretion of a man maketh him slow to anger, and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.

And you, being dead in offences and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, he has quickened together with him, having forgiven us all the offences;having effaced the handwriting in ordinances which stood out against us, which was contrary to us, he has taken it also out of the way, having nailed it to the cross;

Judge not, that ye may not be judged;and if he ask a fish, will give him a serpent?If therefore ye, being wicked, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much rather shall your Father who is in the heavens give good things to them that ask of him?Therefore all things whatever ye desire that men should do to you, thus do ye also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.Enter in through the narrow gate, for wide the gate and broad the way that leads to destruction, and many are they who enter in through it.For narrow the gate and straitened the way that leads to life, and they are few who find it.But beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but within are ravening wolves.By their fruits ye shall know them. Do men gather a bunch of grapes from thorns, or from thistles figs?So every good tree produces good fruits, but the worthless tree produces bad fruits.A good tree cannot produce bad fruits, nor a worthless tree produce good fruits.Every tree not producing good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire.for with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you.

Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he shall exalt you.

for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;being justified freely by his grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus;

And behold, they brought to him a paralytic, laid upon a bed; and Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, Be of good courage, child; thy sins are forgiven.

And seeing their faith, he said, Man, thy sins are forgiven thee.

does not behave in an unseemly manner, does not seek what is its own, is not quickly provoked, does not impute evil,

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